Short Business: Jodie and Renay's Favorite Short Fiction of 2015

[helloladies]

Last year, Renay co-edited a speculative nonfiction anthology and both Jodie and Renay made a decision to read more short fiction. It was only a matter of time until we combined our experiences! \o/

We decided it would be neat to imagine what an anthology of short fiction we loved would look like after our 2015 short fiction reading. We are, in some ways, non-traditional readers of short fiction, looking specifically toward marginalized writers, as well as for stories with a core of optimism.

We don't have the resources to create a tangible fiction anthology of our own (reprint or otherwise), but we decided to pretend. We don't have any rights to these stories and this is purely and 100% for fun. We're happy to bring you the favorite short fiction we both read in 2015, a pretend anthology/rec list we like to call "Seeking Brighter Horizons". We highly recommend all these stories!

Seeking Brighter Horizons: Table of Contents

• The Truth About Owls by Amal El-Mohtar (published 2014)


• Three Cups of Grief, by Starlight by Aliette de Bodard (published 2015)


• Anyway, Angie by Daniel José Older (published 2014)


• She Commands Me and I Obey by Ann Leckie (published 2014)


• Eyes I Dare Not Meet in Dreams by Sunny Moraine (published 2015)


• Tomorrow is Waiting by Holli Mintzer (published 2011)


• How to Become a Robot in 12 Easy Steps by A. Merc Rustad (published 2014)


• Cat Pictures Please by Naomi Kritzer (published 2015)


• The Mussel Eater by Octavia Cade (published 2014)


• A Dozen Frogs, a Bakery, and a Thing that Didn't Happen by Laura Pearlman (published 2015)


• Solder and Seam by Maria Dahvana Headley (published 2015)


• Stone Hunger by N.K. Jemisin (published 2014)


• The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley (published 2015)


• How to Survive the Apocalypse by Rhiannon R.S. (published 2015)


• Werewolf Loves Mermaid by Heather Lindsley (published 2015)


• By Degrees and Dilatory Time by S.L. Huang (published 2015)


• The Guardian's Head by Tamara Vardomskaya (published 2015)


• Wooden Feathers by Ursula Vernon (published 2015)


• Never the Same by Polenth Blake (published 2014)


• The Magician and Laplace's Demon by Tom Crosshill (published 2014)

Other Short Fiction Collections

Virtual Anthology – Best Online SF of 2011 by bogiperson

Comments

[readingtheend.pip.verisignlabs.com]

I love this! I don't read a ton of short fiction but I trust y'all so I am bookmarking all these for later. :)

[rmc28]

The Truth About Owls was first published in 2014 (and was in the Hugo long list last year).

[helloladies]

Yep, this has been fixed. Thanks! :D

[dolorosa_12]

Oh wow, so many of my favourites in one list! I loved 'The Truth About Owls', 'Three Cups of Grief, By Starlight', 'How to Become a Robot in 12 Easy Steps', and 'The Mussel Eaters' in particular.

[susanhatedliterature.net]

I've read a few of those, mainly because they were talked about here, so yay! more great reading ahead :)